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A Shuman Co Clothiers Boston Trade Card Advertising Postcard c1885
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Pre-Postcard (Trade Card) · 1885

A Shuman Co Clothiers Boston Trade Card Advertising Postcard c1885

Boston, Massachusetts, USA1885Pre-Postcard (Trade Card)Good

Victorian-era trade card for A. Shuman & Company, Clothiers, 440 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The front features a finely engraved two-panel design: a circular vignette at left showing a Victorian family — gentleman in top hat, lady with parasol, and two children — at the seaside with sailboats, alongside a dramatic scene of Pulpit Rock amid crashing ocean waves with a small boat in peril at right. The reverse serves as an advertising self-measure guide with a diagram of a boy in a suit and instructions for jacket, pants, and long pants measurements, advertising children's and boys' ready-made and custom clothing.

  • Publisher: A. Shuman & Co., Clothiers, 440 Washington Street to Cor. Summer, Boston, Mass.
  • Status: Unposted
$44.95
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PC-02281 · A. Shuman & Co., Clothiers, 440 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
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